From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Nov 08 15:02:17 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18AI8j-0006GV-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:02:13 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA07791; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:13:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200211082313.SAA07791@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:59:37 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: [lojban] Re: partial recantation in favour of solomonics To: xod@thestonecutters.net Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:59:37 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20021108173758.C36803-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> from "Invent Yourself" at Nov 08, 2002 05:38:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 2558 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Invent Yourself scripsit: > "And you should probably read and meditate on what I closed message 17044 > with, which shows why "50% of unicorns are male" is always a valid > statement." How about "50% of humans are male"? Is that "always valid"? In fact it's false. Maybe unicorn's don't have a sex-ratio close to 1-1. Not all organisms do. -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com jcowan@reutershealth.com Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin